2008 – Page 71

There are at least three gambling houses for every school in the DR. The Education Ministry has registered 10,746 public schools, 2,410 private schools and 197 learning centers, for a total of 13,353. This is in contrast with a total 38,271 gambling houses in the country. Listin Diario points out that most of these houses …

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The DR will now have a single national organ transplant list and the Compatibility Laboratory at the Plaza de la Salud will handle all compatibility tests for potential organ recipients. Six hospitals have also created the Transplant Coordination Network in order to manage the transplanting of organs and cells. These new steps in the area …

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The Health Ministry has announced that since January dengue fever has caused the deaths of 23 people, while 50 people have died due to leptospirosis. The Public Health Ministry has received reports of 2,330 new cases of dengue this year, compared to the enormous number of 4,000 only a year ago. The ministry says that …

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Santo Domingo is hosting the DR’s first monster truck rally, an event that most Dominicans have only seen on TV. “Draco, The Dragonator”, “Project X”, “PR-Ride Truck”, “Havoc, “Get er Done” and “Monster Ride” will put on a show this Friday, Saturday and Sunday night as they jump and destroy cars at the race track …

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Close to 2,500 government officials who took up their posts on 16 August have still not filed their declarations of personal wealth as required by Law 82-79. Meanwhile, Diario Libre reports that others have declared large fortunes in real estate, buildings, businesses, bank accounts and luxury cars. All government officials who began, ended or were …

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The National Police have announced that Frigate Captain (Lieutenant Colonel) Ricardo Rafael Guzman Perez was the operational chief behind the killing of seven Colombians in Paya, Bani, on 4 August. Guzman Perez, who was recently captured by the police when he came to the assistance of his wife when she was found to be carrying …

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The massacre that took place on 4 August in Paya, Bani, where seven Colombians were murdered, has uncovered an organized gang of drug traffickers led by high-ranking naval officers, operating at the very heart of the institution. It also emerged that this ‘mafia’ controlled illegal boat trips to Puerto Rico. Yesterday, according to Diario Libre, …

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Minister of the Environment Jaime David Fernandez has announced that the small cultivated plots known as “conucos” in Los Haitises National Park will be plowed over, and as of tomorrow all sand and gravel extraction companies will have to get out of the riverbeds where they are currently operating. Fernandez has warned the sand and …

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Radhames Segura, the executive vice-president of the Dominican Corporation of State-owned Electricity Enterprises, better known as CDEEE, is reassuring the country that there will be fewer blackouts later this month. He said that this would be due to lower temperatures, increased hydroelectric generation and greater use of the low-consumption light bulbs. Segura said that lower …

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The executive vice-president of the Dominican Association of Free Zones, Jose Manuel Torres, says that the textile factories, or most of them, are working normally. But Hoy newspaper reporter Aleida Plasencia reports that the free zones are almost entirely dependent on production orders that come from the United States. Because of this, if things are …

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